Winged crusade
Subtitle: the quest for American air and space power
By: edited by Michael Robert Terry ; foreword by Walter J. Boyne
Series: Military History Symposium series of the United States Air Force Academy -- v. 9; Military History Symposium series of the United States Air Force Academy -- v. 9.
Publisher: Imprint Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781879176430
Subjects: Military Astronautics; Military Aeronautics; Essays; Space weapons; Air power; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Walter J. Boyne; title: Introduction: Winged Crusade / Michael Robert Terry and Vance R. Skarstedt; title: Wright Brothers: Pattern for American Air and Space Power - Innovation and Legacy of Ingenuity / Tom D. Crouch; title: Who's in Control? A Century of Organizing for Air War / Herman S. Wolk; title: Forging American Air Power: Patrick, Arnold, and Doolittle / Dik Alan Daso; title: An American Way of War: The Quest for High-Altitude Daylight Strategic Bombing / Tami Davis Biddle; title: Luftwaffe Intelligence: How It Viewed the United States Army Air Forces / James S. Corum; title: The Aircraft That Decided World War II: Aeronautical Engineering and Grand Strategy, 1933-1945, the American Dimension / John F. Guilmartin, Jr.; title: Rolling Thunder and Linebacker Campaigns: The North Vietnamese View / Merle L. Pribbenow II; title: Jet Aircraft and Defense Imperatives, World War II to Vietnam / Thomas A. Keaney; title: General Bernard Schriever: "Father of Air Force Missiles and Space Power" / Jacob Neufeld.